Led by Rowland Yeargan, Konbanwa is a project of loose composition & lots of improvisation. On Live Flaying Yeargan asked collaborators to show up with cymbals & like-minded instruments (including glockenspiel, Tibetan bowls, & thunder tubes) while Yeargan himself played simple synthesizer, floor tom, & cymbal. Collaborators included Brian John Mitchell, Bryce Eiman, Armani Mavinga, Will Bridges, Chris Acker, Aya McGee, Tyler Billman, Andrew Harper, Sarah Dakin, & Keith Aazami. The result is a sound that mixes world music with no wave, eastern hypnotics with noise, drone with gamelan. Let the sonic waves shimmer over you.

For decades Chvad SB has been following his own muse, creating music that fulfills his personal interests & so he does again in his latest exploration Intone Drone. Beginning January 17, 2018 & continued for 15 hours every weeknight after 5pm EST streaming from his studio to whomever happened upon it via Shoutcast, Chvad was sculpting a new drone piece. Each passing day a new element was either introduced into, removed from or changed within the drone. Three weeks later the drone ended. Unsure at the beginning of the project how long it would last, on the 21st day it felt complete. For this release, segments of each 15 hour day were arranged to create a complete remnant for this first installment of Intone Drone. It's the mixture of meditation & sleep soundtrack you didn't realize you were looking for, because the more personal & necessary to be made music is, somehow the more universal it also is.

Whenever you reach a milestone, it's natural to reflect. Reflect on the past, your achievements, the possible futures. In 1998 the first Yellow6 record was released, two sides of a 7" single totaling about nine minutes of music. Twenty years on, comes Reflect - a set of thirty-two pieces & five & a half hours of music. Not a retrospective, best of, or greatest hits that you would expect to mark this anniversary, but essentially five albums worth of new music. For long time fans, Reflect showcases the process & creativity of Yellow6, for newcomers it's a perfect opportunity to here a project continuing to explore & find new sounds after two decades.

Internecine Vampires is Luka Fisher's longest EP to date. This record is a continuation of Fisher's last two records Sleep Gallery & Mind Drone Business. This release is a free wheeling exploration of un-winnable situations & social conflict that drew inspiration from everything from chess, Star Trek, & Timothy Leary to considering the ways in which social groups too often fail to connect in meaningful ways. Fisher was also thinking about how queer & trans individuals are too often placed in the unwinnable situation of being evaluated on their ability to "pass" & considered inauthentic in relation to the "authentic" dominant culture. Rather than repeat these moves ad nauseam we need to imagine new games & new ways of being. The unwinnable situation is an invitation to redefine the terms of success; to imagine different ways of being & of relating to the world & those around you; to reject simple binaries & to reject the internecine vampires that lurk within ourselves & our culture. Individuals are meant to be recognized as just that, individuals. Think on & drone on.

Somewhere between the soundtracks of John Carpenter & the songs with pop sensibility from horror anime is the musical work of Petridisch. Lament, a need for knowledge, a sense of peace, the desires of a reluctant monster heroine performed by a Vocaloid named Hatsune Miku. Enjoy five minutes from the future.

Klator is an analog spacetronica side venture for Third Of Never guitarist/founder Jon Dawson. Third Of Never crank the guitars to if not 11 at least 10.5, so the electronic music of Klator serves as a palette cleanser for Dawson. Mosaic is a 5 minute soundtrack for space travel & sci-fi romance.

Led
by Nicholas Slaton, slicnaton mixes elements of jazz, electroacoustics,
no input mixing, glitch, drone, & noise. With a background in
jazz & classical composition, Slaton comes to the drone
& noise table with an exceptionally musical ear &
nuance often lost in the genres. On the new album Ensemble
he expands on his electroacoustic drone roots.

P.
D. Wilder, ex-Hotel Hotel, continues in the age-old tradition of
hillbilly beardos playing ambient drone music solo armed with a guitar
& a dozen pedals. Now a father, Wilder recorded much of
“remember to remind me” during the nine months before his son’s birth.
A reflection & meditation on life with change during the
anticipation of change. Birth, life, death, birth, always changing
always moving forward, always the same – yet always building &
changing, drone is forever.

Small
Life Form started as a studio project of sound exploration in 1998
& became a live project in 2007 focusing on electro-acoustics
& super simple synthesizers. Fragments collects studio
recordings from 2012-2014 dominated by the live rig of the era
complimented by a few computer sound sculptures ("slow silence", "so
sincere", "BPM65", "fluorescent", "buzz"). The stage is set with
"something organic to service the machine" inspired by Harlan Ellison's
short story "I Have No Mouth, & I Must Scream" for a slab of
post-apocalyptic sci-fi doom drone. After mankind has fallen, sound
still needs to be explored.

“She
has always written
very personal songs and on her new album, Neon Resistance, that is
still very much the case. Its lead track, ‘Celeste (Can You Feel It)’,
is huge, an epic pop song that will ear-worm its way into your life.
Let’s hope there really is that parallel universe where Azalia is a
star & appreciated for producing songs like this & then
lets
all go live there!”
~ Stephen Rennicks, Ambient Analogue

Azalia Snail has been
making her uniquely sweet, hypnotic, noise-inflected brand of pop music
since the days before Nirvana broke. Her entire catalog has a spirit of
timelessness where you could believe the music was rare gems from the
late 1960s as well as from the 1990s when she first appeared on the
scene or today. Upbeat, triumphant, & joyous – this is the true
sound of resistance & it's irresistable.

Chvad
SB’s sonic experiments focus on new sounds & textures, but
always with a human edge. On Structure we have
densely droning stings & slide guitar for tow slabs of drone
caught in an endless moment.

M
is We is back with the
illustrious Michael Wood leading the band from post punk to shoegaze to
darkwave. Imagine Sunny Day Real Estate forming a Christian Death
tribute band or Ride covering The Stooges & you’re in
the
right place.

Jason
T. Lamoreaux of Somewherecold faces the 5in5 challenge with his project
The Corrupting Sea. Five minutes of cinematic sci-fi soundscapes, who
needs the movie when you can just get the soundtrack?

Baptizer
is noise & drone & power electronics &
industrial & southern & anti-modern & Christian
& intense. We get it; it's not for
everybody. It's music by & for those who feel trapped
in the wrong place in space & time. A nightmare, a
dream, or a world of its own. If you can imagine Phillip K
Dick & Ezra Pound & Saint Ignatius of Loyola
collaborating & collaging & colliding, you won't be far
off the mark. Enter the caverns & be saved from the
modern world by the hands of Baptizer.

Small
Life Form started in 1998 as seeing how sound could be shaped &
manipulated on a computer using ideas inspired by the works of George
Crumb & Gyorgy Ligeti. Sound experimentation with limitations
forcing creativity & these are the results from before the
project even had a name.

Max
Kutner came to Silber
via Luka Fisher & Records Ad Nauseum, ambient guitar drone
experiments is one of our hallmarks & especially when it’s
about
isolation & self discovery. On Disaffection Finds Its Pure Form,
Max wrote a one & a half page score but with fifteen sets of
rules
to navigate with an electric guitar for thirty sets of six-string
interaction while remaining one unified piece.

Three
Myrtle Beach natives
come together with pop hooks, complex harmonies, & a sound
equal
parts 1960s, 1990s, & today. From accessible psych pop
(“Homie”,
“Seagulls”) to urgent post punk (“The Light”) to classic shoegaze
(“Surfy”, “I’ll Be Gone”) all while carving out their own musical world
of janglegaze as they slip into the sun.

Based
in Warsaw, Poland Fullness Off Lack is a solo project of Mat Gut
(predominantly a guitarist, but he also sings & plays bass for
FOL). The original concept of FOL was to make music that felt like a
full shoegaze/post rock band despite the limitation of a single member,
but now things have shifted to more ambient sides of the genre, leaning
towards drones & soundscapes, which is how things land on Shitty
Heavens. Vocals as a texture with words indecipherable, so
the listener can make their own lyrics based on their own life
experiences of rebellion & struggles & victory. Onward
to the shitty heavens!

The
Moonflower is a murder mystery play by creative powerhouse
Philip James Fox (Wicked Gift, Gratisphere) & the Electric Bird
Noise soundtrack is essentially a greatest hits collection covering the
past seven years of the band. Nearly every musical side of Electric
Bird Noise is represented, from discordant ambient jazz structures
(“owt ytriht”, “neves”) to synth pop (“carnegiea gigantean”, “peter
hook”) to ambient drone (“welcome to static beach”) to darkwave (“i
come from the earth”) to electro (“i miss those hardcore kids”). Sit
back & solve a murder mystery or how all of these songs come
from the same project.

Shane
de Leon (Miss Massive Snowflake) is back to Silber with his long time
friend Jamie Smith (Danghead) & together they are Dusty Tears.
Recorded by Smith when de Leon was on a tour stop for Miss Massive
Snowflake, Internet Hits really captures one of the
great things the 5 in 5 series can do. You have an afternoon of
downtime as a musician on tour? Hang out with a pal & make
something. Part punk, part lo-fi pop, & part experimental
streams of consciousness, this pretty much captures how a mind works
after long drives, sleeping in the van, & living the rock
& roll daydream.

This
is a poppier spin on the Silber style & we’re excited to
have
it in our catalog. Combining both timeless 1960s psychedelia &
ahead of its time experimental pop, d’Animal l’Ogic
fits in at the party whenever the collective time machine crash lands
in a post modernist pop paradise.

Recorded
in 2009, Cactus Hands is the first half of the follow-up to The Sad
Sea. The band expanded from what I think of as their classic
three piece line-up (guitar, violin, drums) to have piano, bass,
& a second guitar. Soaring shimmering instruments,
this is post rock from Texas.

Small
Life Form returns for Christmas with an EP of electroacoustics
& cheap synths built into sonic walls. The first two pieces
("Days Late" & "A Ride Home") are built from a concept Small
Life Form has been trying to bring to fruition for four years, using an
optical theremin & Christmas tree lights. Why did it take four
years? Because the Christmas tree lights were making the theremin make
an unpleasantly high-pitched noise & it took a long time to
figure out how to change that. In the end the answer was putting pieces
of a broken beer bottle over the optical sensor. "Days Late" takes the
theremin & layers on cheap synths to make a piece typical of
the Small Life Form live set while "A Ride Home" takes just the
theremin & slows it down as something to something meditative.
"A Request from Dad" is a piece written at the request of Bryce Eiman
for 919Noise's Christmas Showcase based on some recent shows featuring
music boxes & the only sound sources are music boxes run
through SLF's standard effect rig. So sit back & let the
aggressive ambient ring in your holidays.

For
the past two years one of the primary facets of Electric Bird Noise has
been the discordant chorded minimalist guitar jazz music for art
galleries of Kind of
Black, Birth,
& Follow the
Star & The
Spider.The
Christ Child...The Crow continues this series with
chords fingered by spiders, plucked by crows, & built for The
Christ Child. It's not a horror movie, it's a celebration!

X-Bax
is Phil Dole's
experimental music project this time out with help from Ken Huntington
on harmonica & field recordings while Phil sticks with his
aggressive guitar ambience. Remember that time you got drunk &
tried to figure out which pedals to keep in your rig? 'Twas the Night
Before X-Bax is better than that!

Jon
Attwood has produced another stunning collection of tracks that move in
and out of structure and anti-structure. His anti-post-rock, post-rock
sensibility proves to showcase his prowess in whatever genre you want
to label Yellow6's compositions.
~ Somewhere Cold

For
those not in the know, for eighteen years now Yellow6 has been putting
out an annual Christmas series collecting unreleased & rare
recordings from over the year that haven't been on other releases. It's
always a treat as you get to hear sides of Yellow6 that might not fit
so neatly on an album release. This year we have some pieces more
sparse & minimal than you often think of Yellow6 being, closer
to the sound track of an american desert than a cavern drenched with
echo. It's so easy to get lost in place & space & time
with this collection, is it 1916 or 2016? Does it matter? Drone on!

Ostensibly
this is part of Silber's Christmas series, but don't worry, there's not
a single sleigh bell in sight and there's no reason why you couldn't
enjoy this mellow Wintery soundscape at any time...
~ Stuart Bruce, Chain D.L.K.

Nonconnah
is the new
project from Zach & Denny Corsa who retired the Lost Trail
moniker
after moving from North Carolina to Tennessee. The music is still in
the same vein, walls of guitar & field recordings based sonic
sculptures, just made in different fields. We're pleased to have the
first release of the new project as part of our Christmas series. Sit
back as the glaciers come over the south with some new old friends.

Magnetic Ghost haunts the senses
with droning, expansive, & looming compositions that veer from
quiet contemplation to incendiary intensity in a matter of seconds.
~ Delusions of Adequacy

Magnetic Ghost draws from a variety of genres – from
shoegaze, post-punk, kraut rock, freak folk, drone, post rock,
& many others – resulting in it’s own unique brand of rural
psychedelia inspired by the beauty & isolation of open spaces
& the creeping anxiety of the human drive to fill those
spaces. The vast snowy plains of Minnesota are waiting to
swallow you alive until you will sleep every night, every day, forever.

Joshua
Heinrich (Fornever/Black Wedding) returns to Silber for a 5in5 EP with
his Premature Burial project. Mixing industrial & ambient
elements, f/a/c/t/i/o/n/s paints a portrait of the current political
climate of divisiveness & corruption. The bureaucracy is
spreading like a Kafka novel. Listen to Premature Burial while you're
on hold for hours.

Koyl
comes to Silber with five songs in five minutes, one about each finger.
But are the fingers originally on one hand or are they fingers from
dead men stitched together to tell tales of angst & woe? No
matter, now they all are part of the one & making incredible
soundscapes with a guitar & lapsteel.

For
Nighttime Tides,
Electric Bird Noise presents a soundtrack for the ocean rolling in.
Calming, soothing, repetitive, lulling, but hinting at a sleeping power
of destruction. Will tonight be the night the waves crush coastal towns
while we sleep? While we’re dreaming do we even care if we’re destroyed
or somehow saved by the creatures of the deep? As long as a guitar
string can still create soothing melodies it doesn’t matter if it’s
underwater….

At
Silber we’re pretty
excited about Adventures In Love and Culture: ONCEABILITY because it is
conceptually pretty much everything we’re all about, especially with
the 5in5 series. Two artists living a couple thousand miles away from
each other who've never met in person with very different approaches to
music meet through a release on Silber (LD’s 5in5 from last year - The
Just-World Phenomenon) & end up working on a release on Silber.
Pushing each other out of their comfort zones to make something neither
would do alone. Electronics & chaos from Bronze Eye &
crafted
poetic lyrical precision from LD. A soundtrack to a dream where two
worlds collide like a medieval minstrel busking on a space station.

Dyr
Faser is Eric Boomhower & part of Boston’s growing lo-fi
post-punk/proto-goth scene. Taking notes from godfathers of the genres
like Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Suicide, Durutti Column, &
Coil – Dyr Faser blends it all together & gives you five one
minute shots that hit you like $2 shots at an after hours bar. You
can’t help but nod your head to the drum machine rhythms as you wait
for the creature lurking in the darkness to destroy you. Don’t worry;
the monsters have always been your friends.

M
is We returns to Silber to face the 5in5 challenge. Post punk &
proto goth from Michael Wood & new band member Michael Madden
(guitar). Christian Death meets The Germs meets Cabaret Voltaire, what
more could you want in five minutes except a longer ride?

A Year Without Words
is
the recorded debut of Treyverb & the music speaks without
words,
communicating things too difficult to be spoken from a year of
emotional turmoil resulting in solace & serenity. Let
the
music lap over you like the surf; soothing, swirling, calming,
&
calling you home.

Lost Trail’s drones seem
hollowed out and misty, giving the sensation of walking in a peaceful
cone of silence. They remind us to stay centered, no matter where we
are, to seek the stillness and holiness in the dark quiet of these long
nights.
~ Forestpunk

For 5 years
Lost Trail has been putting out massive amounts of ambient,
experimental, drone, & post rock music. We're pleased
to
present their Winter EP
that provides moments of minimalist reflection as well as walls of
burial in the snow.

With
a firm
experimental base and a penchant of originality and uniqueness, the
nine tracks explore the synthesis of melody and dissonance.
~ Floorshime Zipper Boots

For
nearly 20 years
Electric Bird Noise has been Myrtle Beach, South Carolina's
salvationary lighthouse for experimental music whether it be rooted in
darkwave, new wave, post rock, guitar walls, or experimental
noise. On Follow
the Star Electric Bird Noise follows the discordant
ambient jazz guitar explorations of recent releases Kind of Black
& Birth.
Jesus is coming, how does it make you feel?

If
your musical bag
is slightly more robust and draped in regimental fineries then this may
well furiously tick the boxes sounding as it does like the celestial
cavalry fast approaching over the hill replete with the soft mesmeric
after burns and radiant glow of ethereal chorals of angelic sighs.
~ The Sunday Experience

An
extended meditation on
the glory of Christ as well as the martial tradition inevitably
connected with the preservation of Christendom.

Sleep
Gallery is five minutes of ambient, primitive dance music,
&
sound experiments that will suck you into Luka Fisher’s unique world on
the second floor of a flower shop just off skid row in Los Angeles.

On
Swimming
Towards The Light, Kirchenkampf’s compositions are
inspired by facing a fear of drowning. The sounds shimmer like water
with sounds that are both distant & submerged as well as in
your ear present. A journey & a soundtrack, somewhere between a
horror movie soundtrack & guided meditation. Listen in
& survive your fears alongside Kirchenkampf.

A
recently uncovered set of recordings for a radio session for Ambient
Ping Radio back in 2007. This captures Remora's aggressive
ambient guitar riffs & distorted guitar arpeggios of this
largely undocumented era. Musical nods to Godflesh, Lycia,
& strangely enough Joe Jackson.

On
Three Hundred Seconds,
Heaven Falls Hard presents five pieces creating a cinematic soundtrack
to the last five minutes of life. Paying homage to the classic
soundtrack work of John Carpenter, Goblin, & Ennio Morricone;
an
imaginary film easily comes to mind of one coming to terms &
embracing a final rest. Sit back & let your imagination make an
epic short film.

On
this self-titled EP by M is We, the music is lo-fi electro-clash.
Influenced by post punk, new
wave, & darkwave as well as experimental music, the songs have
maintained pop sensibilities while remaining raw & immediate.
The
reverb drenched & distorted vocals are anthems of isolation
&
escape, of fires & rebirth. Sing along, feel the heat,
& find
something to burn.

It
was only natural that Joe Badon would make his Terra Kaiju comic. A
story of love, sacrifice, & revenge inspired by the giant
monster & samurai movies that Joe grew up on. It was also only
natural that Silber would curate an experimental noise soundtrack for
it.
Featuring: Small Life Form, Chvad SB, Goddakk, IANTH, Clang Quartet,
Dathon,
Electric Bird Noise, Baptizer, Bryce Eiman, Emperor Sumo, M is We,
Mhek, Blues Alias, Llarks, Promute, The Band That Wouldn't Die,
Northern Valentine, & Remora

A must have for any discerning
music afficianado.
~ Floorshime Zipper Boots

A
few years ago there was
well a fad of noise musicians posting pictures & videos of
cheerleaders holding "Make Some Noise" signs on Facebook.
With a cheer from a middle school as an inspiration point,
this compilation is a fun mix of noise, darkwave, prog rock, drone,
& electroclash.
Featuring: M is We, Electric Bird
Noise, fornever, Small Life Form, Ted Johnson, Philip James Fox,
Baptizer, & The Band that Wouldn't Die.

In
all likelihood, this is not what would come to mind when most people
imagine religious music, yet Baptizer’s Nativity EP seems to embody
many ideas and themes related to the actual birth of Christ – not the
consumer-friendly Christmas holiday that we are more familiar with
today. I found this to be an extremely well-crafted and almost
inspiring release that prompts the listener to go on a voyage of
introspection and self-discovery. Honestly, that’s about as outstanding
a holiday gift as any music could provide, and I’d recommend this
relatively brief EP to those willing to approach it with an open mind.
~ Andy Armageddon, Bandjack

DRLNG
is a new project
featuring former members of Boston dreampop act Plumerai. They hail
from New York & Paris & tip their hat to a variety of
influences like Seventeen
Seconds
era Cure, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Bjork, & Ella
Fitzgerald
mixing them all into one cohesive sound of their own. Dreamy organic
songscapes fused with Eliza Brown’s distinctive croon to complete their
sound.

Electric Bird Noise does a good
job of making limited themes go a long way and exploring the
possibilities of thematic development that also produces creatively
cosmic music.
~ Jerry Kranitz, Aural Innovations

Electric
Bird Noise's first album that started it all. Post rock,
darkwave, or whatever they'll call it next year.

Minimalist drone,
aggressive ambient, electro-acoustic, organic, whatever you call it to
describe it doesn't change this from being a great record.
~ Brian John Mitchell, QRD

If
Thousands classic first album. Somewhere between ambient,
drone, avant jazz, shoegaze, & experimental noise is where
Candice Recorder record lies. Probably their darkest album
& a must listen for fans of bands like Coil & Goblin.

Absolut Gehör
manages to fuse elements of drone, industrial noise, folk and jazz in a
heady, surreal mix that evokes the sound of the post-apocaylpyse; in
other words, melancholy, anxious, unsettled & yet possessing a
hushed
beauty.~
William Ruben Helms, The Joy of Violent Movement

Our
favorite experimental Norwegian folk droners return. Fans of
post rock, psych, drone, & lofi should take note of this if
they know the language or not.

Really engaging ambient music
that runs a broad gamut.
~ Tome to the Weather MachineFor
longer than I can remember Silber has had a segment of fans in
Macedonia thanks to DJ, journalist, musician, & general good
guy Toni Dimitrov. To help build the links between Silber
& Macedonia we teamed up with Toni & his label Post
Global Recordings to bring you a sampling of ambient music from
Macedonia that fits in with the Silber aesthetic. Relax
& drone out.

In
2010 QRD
started a series
of interviews with guitar players after spending two years coming up
with 58 questions about approaches & techniques of playing,
&
since it's QRD all the guitarists were a bit out of the mainstream.
After ten sets of interviews it was time to bundle everything
together & ask the guitarists if they had some sound to
contribute.
So we ended up with something pretty massive. 55
tracks of
guitarists pushing their instruments & rigs. A 50+
page
digital booklet. A 2388 page ebook of interviews with
guitarists. I like to think I went all out on this.
I feel
like there’s no justice in mentioning individual contributors &
barely even genres. The pieces flow from ambient to folk to
drone
to jazz to metal to noise & back around several times in its
nearly
4 hour run time. So sit back & relax & drone
out &
bliss out & freak out a good chunk of your day away.

Crickets Were The Compass is a
provocative, challenging, cinematic LP. It creates a strong,
darkly dystopic narrative that is as heavenly as it is
haunting.
A powerful offering from a hugely talented artist.
~ Knifed in Venice

Yellow6
re-affirms his exquisite deft application for the craft of the
touching, the melancholic and the atmospheric.~ The Sunday ExperienceThe drone guitar work of Yellow6
is joined by piano for the 5 in 5 challenge.

Small Life
Form’s ‘We Shall Be One’ is the sound of biology gone astray. Unable to
focus on melody or any form of progression it is reminiscent of tiny
microorganisms. The surreal quality of these songs is quite disturbing
at times. By using something so abstract it moves beyond mere ambience
or noise into an entirely different field of sound. Elements within the
sound itself reappear multiple times creating a fractured sense of
theme. Through the process of evolution the sounds merge to build a
larger greater creature.
~ Beach Sloth

Small
Life Form returns with a feedback driven quest for sleep & the
destruction of self.

Dan
West’s ‘Expression Compression’ is a joyous mess. The songs are long
gone. Pieces are out of control. Noise is a large chunk of it. Loopy
constructions on here are reminiscent of Royal Trux at their most
crazed. Yes things are that unhinged. Melodies do actually exist, just
barely able to cling onto the pseudo structure that holds these pieces
together. Skronk is the best definition of this kind of sound.
~ Beach Sloth
Dan
West came to us through his collaborations with Azalia Snail under the
name LoveyDove. On Expression Compression he
combines 1980s noise rock with Sun Ra styled jazz.

This is the
celebration of near-silence, the tension that exists in the small
spaces.
~ Beach Sloth

The Infant Cycle has been slogging
out their own brand of music blending drone, ambient, noise, &
music concrete for nearly 20 years. The Complete Infant Cycle
represents all the current things The Infant Cycle currently does
distilled down into just five minutes.

Shaun
Sandor of Promute
has been a part of the Silber family since 2007 when he booked the
first live Small Life Form show. His daughter Zlata was born
into
Silber & sometimes she appears in the upper right corner of our
website rocking a Remora shirt. We're super happy to present
to
you this fun father & daughter collaboration.

Ben
Link Collins has been
part of the Silber family since 2009 when he started interning here
& took charge of putting together a number of compilations
before
launching his own Silent Media Projects.
We're proud to release his EP of sonic memories.

Feel
No Other stuffs ‘Five Minute EP’ full of whatever it can find. Taking
an ‘everything but the kitchen sink’ approach works wonders within the
short
playing time. What results is an EP that doesn’t feel that way. The
resulting weirdness that ensues lends itself to greater picture. In a
way this absolutely bizarre structure of the EP feels epic in scale.
~ Beach Sloth

I
became an instant friend to Jim Baptizer
when I met him. The Christian noise scene is all but
non-existant, so it's always great to find a member of our odd little
cult. Known for caustic noise, for his five minute EP he
grabbed
some old four-track guitar noise he did as a teen for an especially
Silbery little collection.

Firetail
- Learning to CheatMP3
EP 2013 | Silber 1332
tracks, 16 minutesdownload
zip file from Silberlisten
on SilberA
free EP to introduce all you Silberians to Firetail, the ambient guitar
drone project of Andrea Vascellari of the italian slowcore band
Lullabier. Recommended if you like Aarktica, mwvm,
Thorn1, If Thousands, or essentially half of the Silber
roster....

I've
been a fan of Wades
for years. I still have the first demo they sent me maybe ten
years ago. They're part punk rock & part folk blues
&
part lo-fi pop. They're pretty much what I always dreamed
would
happen if I was in a couples band. I'm super stoked that
asking
them to do this EP helped encourage them to start working on music more
seriously again.

Drekka
Soundsystem enjoys
playing with the listener’s expectations. Normally dub is a soothing
relaxing form. Turning this on its head creates relatively jarring
little pieces that lodge themselves into the brain.
~ Beach Sloth

After
the drone dirges
& post-apocalyptic pop of recent releases, Remora returns to
the
fun bits that made the project known as the south's premier post rock
party band. Fun & whimsy after the destruction of a
planet.

This
is definitely a band I’ll be keeping an eye on in the future!
~ Jay Snyder, Hellride Music

Irata
finally returns!
The horns are gone & replaced with vocals, but they
still
have their unique aggressive progressive sludge sound that kicks you in
the gut at the same time it smashes you in face.

This is one of the most
sedated pieces I’ve heard for a long time. Listen to it late at night
with little distraction. It’ll gently lull you to sleep.
~ Beach Sloth
A
45 minute electro-acoustic drone piece from Small Life Form built from
voice, melodica, copper pipe, optical theremin, super simple
synthesizer, feedback, & aircraft lock.

Plumerai
- Marco
PoloMP3
EP 2012 | Silber 1124 tracks,
16 minutesdownload
zip file from Silberlisten
on SilberThis band is beauty personified.
Their music is ethereal and swirly,
much like Cocteau Twins and Bel Canto. Eliza Brown’s voice captivates
and entrances. The guitars are swirly and chimey while the rhythm
section chugs along quite contently. . . . This band has been around
for a few years and has seen many lineup changes. I do feel this
combination of musicians is indeed the strongest they’ve had &
I hope
they continue to make music as impressive as this in their current
configuration.
~ The Noise-Boston

The
first recording of Plumerai with all new line-up featuring new
vocalist Eliza Brown & new drummer Mickey Vershbow.

Since
1998 Northern Valentine has been perfecting
their version of drone music - based on improvisation & the
emotions of the performers reacting to their physical environment
& to each other at that moment, feeding off of &
amplifying each other’s energies. Here they collect more of
the unique drones that have made them a staple of the genre.

Remora- My
Brother's Guns & KnivesMP3
EP 2011 | Silber 10514
track, 65 minutesdownload
zip file | listen
on SilberRemixes
& more of
Remora's "My Brother's Guns & Knives." You'd think an
hour of
remixes of one song would be ridiculous & impossible to sit
through, but half of the remixes are really derivative works merely
using the original song as source material. We hope you dig
it.

Two words are all I really
need here: starkly gorgeous. DeRosa plays folk-influenced indie pop
that
owes as much to Leonard Cohen as Red House Painters but more aptly
resembles
the latter. DeRosa plays all the instruments on this release - except
for
cello on two songs - & what you get is quiet, contemplative
folksy
music that is stark in its crisp, pure acoustic guitar & soft
drumming
and gorgeous in DeRosa’s rich, emotive vocals.~
Delusions of Adequacy

Jon
(Aarktica) DeRosa’s final
appearance as DLR before re-working his folk stylings into the
americana
of
Pale Horse and Rider.

mwvm
-
Had Yr
PashMP3
Album 2012 | Silber 0998
tracks, 45 minutesdownload
zip file from Silberlisten
on Silbermwvm
is an old
friend of Fwonk – his distinctive guitar based ambient drones and
melodies, and his sheer dedication to tonal detail make him essential
listening for all ambient and drone fans. This, his second album,
begins with delightful finger picked guitars and carries on in a
similarly gorgeous, uplifting vein.
~ Fwonk

Long
awaited sophmore album of angst ridden ambient & slide guitar
from mwvm.

Remora is the main alias
of Silber Records honcho Brian John Mitchell. In 15 years, the man has
cover a lot of ground, and Scars Bring Hope, while featuring only new
material,
kind of sums up past experiences. Inside you will find post-apocalyptic
folk songs, drones, and electronic music. Helped by Electric Bird
Noise’s
Brian Lee McKenzie, who dragged him out of the bedroom and into a
proper
recording studio, Remora delivers an album more definitive-sounding
than
usual, a good point of entry into his universe – a dark, fallen
universe
with very little hope left.~
François Couture
, Monsieur Delire

Remora returns with both
it's special brand of post apocalyptic pop & guitar drone in a
full
band setting. The most commercial Remora release to
date. In
the vein of Some Past's Future & Enamored.
From
post punk to post rock & always post apocalyptic.

It's always refreshing to
hear music on the Silber label. In a world where there are too many
generic
predictable artists, this label continues providing solid, substantial,
unique music that will stand the test of time. The Silber Sessions is
the
fifth full-length release from Electric Bird Noise...a recording
project
driven by the songwriting skills of Brian Lea McKenzie. This album
presents
various rare and unreleased recordings by the band culled from the past
decade. But instead of coming across like a bunch of random pieces with
varying sound quality, the album is surprisingly cohesive. It's hard to
compare and contrast this album because McKenzie's music doesn't really
sound like any other specific artists. Thirteen ultra-creative cuts
here...and
they all have something credible to offer. Our favorite elusive artsy
cuts
include "Trouble at the Hayworth House," "Christmas With Reilly,"
"February
23rd," and "Fall of the World Trade Center." We could spin this one for
months and never tire of these songs. TOP PICK.~
Babysue

Finally Electric Bird Noise
is officially on Silber with the cinematic loopscapes & guitar
drone
that make them famous. The Silber Sessions collects ten years
of
compilation appearances & spans the shifts & changes in
sound from
over the past decade.

Clang
QuartetAvaMP3
EP 2011 | Silber 0941
track, 30 minutesdownload
zip file from SilberCaptured
on Ava is a live performance from 2008 at the Ava Gardner Independent
Film
Festival. It showcases the cacophony, chaos, order, &
music that
is uniquely Clang Quartet.

For those of you who’ve read
Go Ask Alice, you’ll understand when I say I wish the protagonist had
been
able to move past her LSD experiences in the way Azalia Snail has.
Prolific
Snail, named after the flowers in her parents’ yard, presents us with
some
somber psyche numbers featuring her multi-instrumental talents and
moody
vox. There are some horns on here from Taylor Wheedlin and Alex Lewis.
Hear for yourself why she’s called the Space Folk Psych Queen.~
KFJC

The queen of lo-fi space
pop now has a home on Silber. We're glad to have her here as
we've
been a fan of hers dating back to before Silber began. Her
music
combines punk, pop, psychedia, & minimalism in her own unique
vibe,
just listen to the sample track & you'll see what we mean.

... it's amazing to notice
the constant quality of his songwriting since the beginning, everything
in place since the first song until now, Rivulets's foundations are as
solid & as deep as a rock half buried in a pale landscape stuck
under
wintry grey skies.~
Didier Goudeseune, Derives

Demos
captures
an era of Rivulets that hasn’t been documented elsewhere. During the
first
formative year of Rivulets, an important part of the band was bass
player
Jason Seckel, who’s minimal long sustained notes style can finally be
heard
for the first time by many fans. You get to hear early versions of
songs
like “Four Weeks” & “Past Life” along with unreleased songs
like “Sick
Love” & our personal favorite “Anyway.”

With an album title like
"Let it Pee" how could you not be intrigued? Their lyrics are explicit,
their guitar lines intense, their drum beats driving, and we're sure
their
live show would be invigorating. Together since 2004, but
influenced
by music from 30 plus years ago, we're not really sure what their end
goal
may be, but they've creatively revived an era.~
New Band Daily

Okay, I know what you're
thinking, "What's a glam punk band doing on Silber?" Well,
when good
friends make good music, you feel a need to make it heard.
Over the
top & hyper-sexualized rock & roll brought back to life
&,
much like Frankenstein's Monster, is stronger & more intense
than before
it died.

If you have any interest
whatsoever in space rock, stoner, psyche or progressive metal then you
need this album in your life, period. It is a masterpiece of the genre
and not just my album of the year, by a considerable distance, but a
new
entry in to that hallowed list of my favourite albums of all time, and
I can’t say fairer than that.~
Dan Salter, Echoes and
Dust

Guitars, drums, bass, &
saxophone form this instrumental group from Greensboro, NC. We're happy
to make this debut available to the masses while they're working on
their
new album. Includes video for their song "Eye of Ra."

Anna Lynne Williams has
one of the most intoxicating voices in modern music.~
Auralgasms

Lotte Kestner is the solo
project of Anna-Lynne Williams (Trespassers Williams). A cross between
White
Chalk era PJ Harvey & early Joan Baez, she sings
songs that would
be equally at home on a beatnik’s record player, a hippy’s 8-track, or
some hipster’s iPod. Minimal, sparse, majestic. Guitar & voice
tell
stories of hope for love & loss of love & the difficult
navigations
of human relationships.

This is a lot different to
anything else I’ve heard by Remora. The guitars have largely been
jettisoned
in favour of early eighties analogue synthesisers. Mecha is a concept
album
put together by Remora (aka Silber head-honcho Brian John Mitchell)
with
an accompanying comic. It’s a tale of a dystopian future of robot
freedom
fighters in the grand DC/Marvel tradition.~
Music Musings & Miscellany

She has a pretty pixie voice,
& she whispers & sings in tune, with a blend of
seduction &
childish naivete - tone-wise, not lyric-wise, as her lyrics are
efficient
& poetic. June accompanies herself simply at the acoustic
guitar. Honest
& enjoyable. Some of these melodies will etch their path in my
brain
after only two listens I’m sure.~
Monsier Delire

A welcome new addition to
the Silber family. Goth-tinged folk americana from Sarah June
for
fans of the Cranes, PJ Harvey, or Joanna Newsom.

This is truly an album to
cherish during those quiet moments when you need to relax after a
troubling
day, or just want to stare at the sunset or walk through the snowfall
&
reminisce about the times of your life when everything was alright with
the world....~
Jeff Penczak, Foxy Digitalis

A welcome new addition to
the Silber family. Carta reminds us of a ton of stuff we like
from
Low to Six by Seven to Plumerai to Charles Atlas & are in the
tradition
of all the mid 1990s moody pop/slowcore/indie rock/post rock bands we
came
of age to.

We've loved everything we've
heard thus far from DeRosa. He's one of those artists you can always
depend
on to come through with intriguing quality music with a conscience.
This
is an individually numbered limited edition CD (only 500 copies). TOP
PICK.~
Babysue

At
the request of Bryce
Clayton Eiman, Remora prepared a piece for the Guitar Antiheroes 919
Noise
Showcase on May 12, 2009. The showcase had performers pushing the idea
of how to approach the guitar as an instrument. For Remora’s
performance
to push the sound to the next level from a standard Remora show (which
is already often filled with guitar noise), Brian John Mitchell
(Remora)
boosted the sound to the next level by using five guitars, a bass,
&
four amplifiers instead of the standard single guitar & amp.
The additional
guitars were staged around the main amplifier to act as drone
instruments.
Probably the loudest Remora show ever (reports are it was heard clearly
a block away) & often on the cusp of losing control of the wave
of
sound, the piece ended with Mitchell nearly throwing up from the volume
exposure. Still the music somehow ends up as soothing as it is menacing.

After
the release of Bleeding
Light, Aarktica did a short West Coast tour with most of the
full live
band. During this trip the band was invited to perform live on the air
at KUCI in Irvine, CA. These tracks, recorded live, capture the
rawness,
tension & dynamics of Bleeding Light-era
Aarktica & represent
the only live shows done outside of New York City for this album. A
very
different animal than the on-record Aarktica most know, the live shows
of this era featured the virtuosity of free jazz greats Mike Pride
&
James Duncan on drums & trumpet, respectively Just listen to
the drum
breaks toward the end of “A Shadow Knife,” & the trumpet solos
on “OJ
Gude.”

When
the time came to make
a soundtrack to the Lost Kisses cartoons, Small Life Form’s brand of
electro
acoustics & aggressive ambient seemed like a great fit for the
stories.
The music is loop driven & sometimes barely noticed &
at other
times feels like a laser beam straight to the brain threatening to
completely
wash it clean. The soundtrack to an emotional acid trip - not
necessarily
positive or negative or menacing or soothing, but very physically
present.The
instruments used are
the standards of the recent live Small Life Form shows including copper
pipe, triangles, melodica, pitch pipe, harmonica, microphone feedback,
& voice all washed & sculpted with distortion, reverb,
& delay.Some
of the pieces are shorter
or longer than on the Lost Kisses DVD (adjusted for the length of the
cartoons)
& also included are the pieces for the menu pages that were
eventually
cut from the release.If
you dig the soundtrack
make sure to check out the DVD
to get the rest of the story.

"Why
isn’t Jon DeRosa’s work
as Aarktica mentioned in the same breath as Stars of the Lid or Eluvium
when discussing ambient/drone music?"~
Ian Mathers, PopMatters

Aarktica returns to Silber
for the ten year in the making sequel to No Solace in Sleep!
Check
out what will soon be Silber's best selling release ever & an
indie
ambient classic! Includes slow-drone cover of Danzig's "Am I
Demon?"

Six-Winged
is a terrific album that
flits from style to style, but manages to hang together perfectly. Even
the book ending tracks, ostensibly two versions of the same thing,
sound
nothing like each other. The first a delicate, fragile whisper of a
song,
the second straying into Galaxie 500 territory. It shows that surprise
and variety needn’t be at the expense of consistency and flow.~
Music Musing & Miscellany

Moodring
is centered around
Rollerball's
Monte Allen & Mae Starr. While it’s easy to hear that
Moodring
is awesome, other words to describe them are a bit harder to come
by.
The presence of piano & clarinet give a free post-jazz
flavor.
Mae Starr’s ghostly vocals sound like the lounge music on a sinking
ship.
The deep groove jams sink in to form some kind of modern American
gamelan
sound. The music is so raw & infectious &
immediate that
it feels more proto-everything than post-anything. So just
soak it
in & sink into the doom.

This is true & funny
material ina day & age when the two worst adjectives your work
can
have are "true" & "funny."~
Dave Sim, Cerebus/Glamourpuss

Well, it's finally here,
a collection of cartoon versions of the first ten issues of Lost
Kisses.
It even includes a special making of thing & cartoons of Worms
#1 &
XO #1. The DVD includes a psychonautic electro-acoustic drone
soundtrack
of new music by Small
Life Form. Lost Kisses tells snarky stories of
life's perils
with self -deprecating humor. So check it out &
spread the word.

The clear field
recordings are a unique combination of elements of all three projects.
You hear the loops & aggression of Remora’s guitar work,
Northern Valentine’s
ambient shimmering glacial guitars, & slicnaton’s orchestrated
glitch
& deep bass tones. While hearing all three individual
musicians, it
still is clearly a collaboration of the three rather than one of the
projects
with two special guests; it is a unique sound of its own.

2007 marked Small Life Form’s
live debut & over the next year the style refined, abandoning
real
horns for a piece of copper pipe, replacing organs with melodica,
&
vocals with feedback manipulation. Alive is
collected from two live
recordings in 2008. They are massive structures built from
scratch
using a loop pedal, distortion pedals, & reverb units.

Stars Whisper is a
collection of three live songs from Northern Valentine, recorded in
their
hometown of Philadelphia with a line-up of Robert Brown, Amy Brown,
Jeffrey
Bumiller, & Marc Carazo. The individual tracks were recorded at
The
Fire & The Rotunda (as part of “Gate”, an experimental music
series).

This is minimalist ambience
at its best. Heartfelt, soulful & affecting, like gazing at a
scrapbook
of memories. The ever-reliable Silber Records are to be commended for
bringing
us this – repay the favour by investing in a copy, since downloads
won’t
help guarantee there'll be more to follow.~
Phil McMullen, Terrascope
online

Northern Valentine is husband
& wife Robert & Amy Brown along with friends who join
them from
time to time. They have been writing & recording music since
1997 &
have released material previously on acclaimed label Gears of Sand as
well
as on their own label Baresound. We are glad to have them
added to
the Silber roster. They are from Philadephia, Pennsylvania &
they love
to play live shows. Depending on the performers, live shows can range
from
quiet and meditative drones to loud & fuzzy instrumental post
rock,
often within the same set.

While we’re anticipating
the release of their new album The Sad Sea on
Silber shortly, I
figured we’d introduce them to the rest of you with this live
performance.
Recorded on October 20, 2005 at J&J’s in Denton, Texas with a
line-up
of P.D. Wilder (guitar), Justin Lemons (guitar), Patrick Patterson
(violin),
Francesca Riedle (violin), & Evan Caverninha (drums); Under
Sea,
Over Storm captures the band early on showing the atmospheric
post
rock they’ve been perfecting over the years. One flowing
piece divided
into several song ideas, themes, & improvisations; this gives
you an
idea not only of their live show, but what to look forward to on their
upcoming studio recordings as well.

We released mwvm’s debut
album rotations in the fall of 2007 & now we are pleased to
give you
a collection of remixes & reworkings from some close friends.
The remixes
include a shimmering mass of complex jarring textures by the mighty
Astral
Social Club, pulsing layers of precision amplitude modulation from
Sonicslice,
& Zac Keiller doing an alt-country cover version of “context.
where?”Track
Listing:1.
“rotations” remix by
Astral Social Club2.
“celestial motion” remix
by Sonicslice3.
“negative pole” remix
by Scott Solter4.
“windows” remix by Moral
Crayfish5.
“context. where?” cover
by Zac Keiller6.
“celestial motion” horizontal
remix by Echosonic

So it has been a little
while since something in our free comp series has gotten out of our
control.
We were like, “Hey, let’s do a Halloween comp & do an open call
for
entries!” So we ended up with thirty tracks & over two hours of
music.
Also just a little too short in time to manufacture compact discs. So
that’s
why this time there are no physical copies at all. Just available on
this
thing called the internet.

Across
its 8 tracks, The Sad Sea
proves to be a tangibly executed, cinemascope soundscape to an unmade
film
- its dulcet tones narrating a story of suffering, solitariness,
anxiety
& deep pensiveness but with a shimmering veneer of hope that
prevails
throughout. If you are after top-draw ‘real’ post-rock that shuns the
immediacy
of more commercially minded bands in favour of a brand of subtle
progression
that has melancholic & morose characteristics deeply
intertwined within
its rich sonic texture, then The Sad Sea is for you.~
Kamyar Sadegzadeh, experimusic.com

Instrumental post rock inspired
by a torturous ocean journey. The sounds of hurricanes
funneled through
violins, guitars, drums, & effect pedals. Feel
yourself sinking
into the ocean of sound.Recommended
if you like:
Stars of the Lid, Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed You Black Emperor

Throughout this whole disc,
the magic of the place where it was recorded can be felt and heard. A
very
special recording, it is both ancient and modern. This record is a
bridge
between the “Real” world and the magic one. In this place and on this
record
they co-exist beautifully.~
Dan Cohoon, Amplitude
Equals One Over Frequency Squared

The unplugged industrial
orchestra presents a collection of songs & folklore from the
half-mythical
landscape Trollebotn, deep in the mountains of Telemark, Norway.

Despite being one of Lycia’s
more atmospheric works, Cold
became a big hit amongst the
black metal & space rock crowds expanding their fan base
greatly.
On the Cold tour, one would
typically see as many fans in
Hawkwind & Motorhead t-shirts as Sisters of Mercy t-shirts;
forty-year-old
rockers standing next to teenaged Goths.

This is one band that is
different enough to appeal to drone fans while still up-tempo enough to
appeal to more mainstream listeners, and that in itself is a dazzling
combination.~
Chris Dahlberg, Cosmos
Gaming

The full length from post-pop
stars Plumerai. Includes the cover of Remora's "Kill My Way
Out of
Here."

Here
at Silber, mothers
have always had a special place in our heart. So we’re happy
to finally
get a compilation together to pay a little bit of the tribute mothers
are
so dearly due.Everyone
has a different
style of song to show their love from heavy metal (Wrong Brothers) to
post-rock
(Glissade, Electric Bird Noise) to noise (Moral Crayfish) to simply
acoustic
guitar (Remora). While most went the instrumental route, the
songs
with vocals by Plumerai & Miss Massive Snowflake show the
tongue-in-cheek
comedy that we all use to tell our moms we love them.

So
we have been joking
about this compilation for a couple years & now it is finally
out.
A collection of 29 artists covering songs from the Silber artist roster
We were really flattered by all the tracks & the way so many
people
took tracks & totally retooled them into something of their
own.
Offered as a free download to the internet savvy.

...this is perhaps the perfect
Christmas album as the two CD collection encompasses all moods of the
season
and while some people wake up to nice presents and a loving family some
will wake up to terminal illness and bereavement. It's nice to see an
album
cover those two extremes of moods via music. I envy those who live in
the
great open spaces of Canada and the Pacific North West, for if I did I
would have the perfect album to drive to while viewing its halcyon
winter
landscape.~
Michael Byrne, Left Hip

Merry Christmas from Silber
Records. Silber Sounds of Christmas is
our third Christmas
compilation & once again offered as a free download to the
internet
savy.

It’s exactly as the title
says – Sparhawk of Low playing guitar. Simple, right? And amazing – his
guitar burns through the air, sometimes creating waves built of empty
space
and sometimes searing like Eddie Van Halen’s (an allusion made concrete
through his cover of “Eruption”).~
Dave Heaton, The Big Takeover

Fans of
Goth, Dark wave,
Post-punk and Art Rock need look no further then the mastery that was
Lycia.~
Michael Riley, Left Hip

The classic darkwave album
remastered by Lycia frontman Mike VanPortfleet & released in
this definitive
version. Hear this major influence to Aarktica &
Remora
& a thousand other bands for the first time or kick it back to
the
music you loved ten years ago.

Slow, sorrowful, and lush
dronescapes that unfold calmly and thoughtfully. This album is like the
quiet before the storm - every track seems ready to explode with energy
but manages to contain itself all the way through. I Have Nothing is
confident
and methodical - easily absorbed and brimming with emotion and
conviction.~
Everything is Fire

A stylistic follow up to
Lullaby,
If Thousands return with their sonic experimentation.

Layers of deep drones and
pulsating electro-acoustic manipulation. Listen closely and you'll
discover
whole worlds of subtle aural beauty that as a whole creates one of the
most well crafted and enticing drone albums I've heard in a while.
Improvisation
and experimentation at its finest by Kai Mikalsen and his Norwegian
crew.~
Everything is Fire

A continuation of Kai's collaborations
with virtually the entire Norwegian experimental underground, Dronesyndrome
is a drone record that sounds better the louder & longer you
listen
to it.

This is a completely coherent
piece of art. It is a very dark album, but it has moments where the
light
peers through the cracks and crags of the mournful, sorrowful ambience.
The landscapes are bleak at times, but they are oh so beautiful.
Estrella
is a brilliant piece of art.~
Jason Lamoreaux, Somewhere
Cold

The classic darkwave album
remastered by Lycia frontman Mike VanPortfleet & released in
this definitive
version. Hear this major influence to Aarktica &
Remora
& a thousand other bands for the first time or kick it back to
the
music you loved ten years ago.

The compositions on this
album are dreamy & hypnotic. They were not recorded for the
purpose
of making money nor were they made to entertain the general population.
Vanflower experiments with her voice & with sounds. The
resulting recordings
reflect her disregard for fame & fortune. Thus, while Fire-Filled
Heart may be a commercial disaster...artistically it is a
resounding
success. Strangely distant & unfamiliar territory. EXCELLENT.~
Babysue

My Little Fire-Filled
Heart is the new solo album from Tara of Lycia. Songs for
lost moons
& broken hearted spirituals stretched into ethereal
experiments.

Simple electric/acoustic
guitar strumming with dark lyrics about love & loss. As cheesy
as "lyrics
about love and loss" sounds, this album works. From droning
instrumental
tracks to thick acoustic numbers, this album is experimental and unique
enough to be a good/refreshing listen.~
Everything Is Fire

Remora returns with the first
full length in four years featuring post-apocalytic love songs
& ambient
guitar drones.

Catholic Paws/Catholic
Pause has all the elements that make a Rollerball album so
original,
the catchy pop songs with tints of goth, the jazz maelstroms &
the
ambient whimpers. Experimenting. Collaborating.
Beautiful music
that creates emotion & energy.

Jamie comes through with
something that surpasses Rufus Wainwright, Hayden, and even the
ultra-overrated
Elliot Smith; Honey From the Ribcage is the
indie-rock album to
pick up this year.~
James McQuiston, Altar
Magazine

Honey from the Ribcage
is bedroom-pop-americana more orchestrated & fully realized for
Jamie's
second album.

Released
as a Christmas
gift for our fans in winter 2004. It's available for free download or
you
can buy one of the few remaining original copies from us with their
hand-decoupaged
covers. Artists include Rolleball, Plumerai, Remora, Small Life Form,
If
Thousands with Haley Bonar, Shiny Around the Edged, Tore Honore Boe,
Immune,
The Massive Snowflake, Attrition, Oleta, Aidan Baker, Drekka, Origami
Vokstervisse,
Peter Aldrich, Rivulets, & Jamie Barnes.

Though it's been hinted at
in the past, evidently the timing was right for Mike VanPortfleet of
Lycia
to release a solo album. This piece is heavily atmospheric and might be
a bit disorienting if you go into it expecting to hear A Day
In The
Stark Corner, which this album is NOT. What this album is, in
fact,
is brilliant and beautiful. Heavy ambient loops building up atmosphere
and tension through the first four tracks. I promise you this, when you
reach track 5 "Stellar Buckshot Awaits", you will find yourself in
familiar
territory. The guitar sound that makes him so recognizeable, and that
brilliant
voice, are waiting for you. I nearly leapt for joy to hear his
brilliant,
whispy voice calling from the horizon line. Misery and mastery become
one
in this incredible album. ~
David Poseidon, Gothic
Beauty

When was the last time you
listened to something experimental, enjoyed it, & understood
it? I'm
usually left to contemplate what just abused my eardrums, with little
consideration
for whether the music actually meant something. Unlike many other
experimental
albums, Behind the Barber won't bore you with too
much drone or
leave you cringing in anticipation of your next aural flogging;
Rollerball
has decisive control over its music and presents it in an interesting
way.
They'll lull you into a state of relaxation, but inject appropriate
doses
of musical excitement along the way. It's good to hear them returning
to
form after almost dropping off the map.~
Andrew Magilow, Splendid

Rollerball return to their
home studio for their tenth album,
Behind the Barber. A brooding
exploration of psyche-gothic-jazz-noise, electron misted funk,
& unstoppable
creativity. Includes colloborations with Nudge,
Ovo,
Bill
Horist, & a 16 minute latin fire with Jackie-O
Motherfucker's
tenor sax maniac Jef Brown. Rollerball is unassailably
original &
on this album they show us their proficient chops, rabid fangs,
& wild
wigs.

Lycia's music is the soundtrack
of the spirit. Lycia's ability to explore the full psychology of our
hope,
dreams, depressions, & disappointments is extraordinary. Lycia
itself
is the unexplored beauty of humanity & its frightened
child. ~
Matt Rowe,
MusicTap

Empty Space is the latest
and presumed final album by Lycia. After 15 years working on drum
machine
rhythms & becoming legends in the darkwave style, Lycia
explores their
original post-punk roots.

Twelve strikes a great balance
between offering the soundscapes that can make ambient music
interesting
& avoiding the lack of development that can make it boring.
This is,
by a long shot, my top recommendation of the month.~
Kent Walter, 1340mag.com

First Album is the
debut of a new band from Chris Olley (Six
by Seven). Bittersweet
ballads, krautrock beats, pulsing electronica, loops, & guitar
exploration
all so finely honed that they could sneak in as pop music.

Bare bone drones are at hand,
exquisitely presented for the astute listener. Subtle transitions
within
the drones are carved into the audio as they rise, swell, and
disintegrate.
One is extremely well done and recommended for the drone
enthusiast. ~
JC Smith, Outburn

One is the debut album
by Brian John Mitchell (of
Remora) as Small Life Form. The album
is built around sound rather than music. It's built from loops of
horns,
melodica, organ, and voice to make a wall of organic and beautiful
noise
inspired by 1960's classical music.

The title track is sickeningly
sweet but with a morbid edge, as the narrator falls for a girl like an
acrobat who plummets from the wire. Barnes sings about her picking up
his
limbs and putting them back in their sockets before the vultures come
and
it's still the sweetest song about love I've heard this year. ~
Rob Devlin, Brainwashed

The Fallen Acrobat is the
debut album by Louisville singer-songwriter Jamie Barnes. Fleshed out
bedroom
pop songs about the anxieties of growing up and the nostalgia of youth.

This album is staggering
in its creativity even though it's probably the most pop-focused of
Rollerball's
releases. They bring the funk influence which has always been lurking,
closer to the fore quite tastefully, with propulsive drums and
full-bodied
bass inspiring movement, but the highlight of their music is definitely
the super-catchy lyrics and melodies.~
Steve Smith, Brainwashed

Real Hair, Rollerball's
ninth full-length release, follows a more direct path than any of the
band's
previous albums. By zeroing in on actual songs Rollerball captures the
essence of their live sound more here than on any previous release.

Aarktica's songs are extended
reveries, built on loops of guitars and drums and occasional voices.
The
musical elements hover and circle, float by or bristle with distortion
as the songs drift through serenity and trouble.~
Jon Pareles, New York
Times

Pure Tone Audiometry
is Aarktica's most involved work yet, approaching the balance between
"drone"
and "song." Although the overall tone is consistent and dreamlike, the
content within is as varied as DeRosa's personality, combining gentle
lullabies
with jagged atonalism, string trios with white noise guitars, and
feverish
percussion overtop sedate drones.

The best release yet on Silber
Records. The music is sweeping, ethereal, majestic, and mentally
absorbing.
...the compositions on this album are amazingly uplifting emotionally
and
very intense in a restrained manner. One of the most beautiful
electronic
masterpieces we have heard in years. Wendy Carlos would be proud. This
is a MUST HAVE.~
babysue

Kobi is a collaborative project
between Kai of Origami Arktika and nearly every
known experimental
musician from Norway. The results are powerful and emotionally charged
sonic landscapes reminiscent of hallucinated orchestral works.

The ultimate test of a drone
record is if it stands up to both passive and active listening. If I
can
find the record as enthralling when I listen to it at work as it is
when
I drift off to sleep, then that's some good drone. Lullaby meets both
of
those criteria, and then some.~
Jason Morehead, Opuszine

If Thousands present a beautiful
blanket of sound recorded as a soundtrack for falling asleep. Quite
beautiful
and soothing. Fans of Godspeed You Black Emperor and Stars of the lid
should
love this one.

Irving plays his home-designed
percussion megalith called "the Crutch" (a jumble of saw blade, broken
cymbal, office stapler, & various other noisemakers) while
hopping
around in spiritual rapture and, all the while, drawing directly
directly
on events in the life of Christ. This could be a genuinely fascinating,
groundbreaking mix of influences, and the best on The Separation of
Church
and Hate prove that religious conviction and the experiments of
Irving's
heroes (Throbbing Gristle, This Heat) can coexist with surprising
fluidity.~
Matt Pierce, Splendid

Three projects, all of quite
accomplished musicians, contributing to a concept album - an
interesting
idea and one pulled off here admirably. While all three take similar
directions
and help make this album cohesive, each has their own approach, which
keeps
the album interesting. Much better than a simple split EP, this is a
split
album of three EPs, a truly impressive project.~
Delusions of Adequacy

A triple split EP from Remora,
Pale
Horse and Rider, and Rivulets of songs
about or inspired by
alcohol. A collection of acoustic guitar songs in the vein of Bruce
Springsteen's
Nebraska.

The compositions on the curiously
titled Vardøgr are accidental, strange, eerie, sparse, and definitely
not what the average person would consider music to be. We're always up
for a challenge... and we openly embrace the idea of noise and sound
presented
as music. Accordingly, we find this album to be perplexing and
genuine...~
babysue

First US domestic release
of Norwegian folk/ambient/noise hybrid Origami Arktika includes
reworkings
of Scandanavian folk songs as well as original material.

Welcome
to the end of the
world, I hope you can enjoy it. We’ve got a lot going on here
at
the last minute, some old faces & new allies, all with new
sounds varying
from minimalist guitar to dense tones to bliss-pop. Let
yourself
go & be peaceful with some Silber music smuggled in from
2012.
Artists include Jessica Bailiff, Electric Bird Noise, The Land of Nod,
Marc Gartman, Remora, Origami Amika, Hollis M. Sparhawk & Her
Father,
My Glass Beside Yours, Drekka conducts the Mt. Gigantic Drone
Orchestra,
6 P.M., Flare, Max Soren, Vlor, Rivulets, J Seckel, Rollerball,
& If
Thousands.

Put
out for the 4th of
July, this one got a lot of radio play after September 11th.
The
songs aren't particularly patriotic. Artists include
Anaphylaxis,
Michael J. Bowman, Remora, The Somnambulants, Clang Quartet, Peter
Aldrich
(featuring David Williams), Landing, Electric Bird Noise, The
Undermasks,
Verloc, & Noise Spies.

Beginning with the heady
drone of "10,004," Some Past's Future goes off in all directions
foreign
and unknown. We definitely prefer the experimental instrumentals to the
vocal tracks with recognizable lyrics. Strange and disjointed, this
album
is definitely NOT for everyone...~
babysue

Some Past's Future
combines all the elements of Remora from apocalyptic post-punk to
beautiful
noise to minimalist atmospheric. Songs about the future, the past,
love,
and working class dreams. Aggression tempered with guilt. The tonal
chaos
within each piece is hopeful and revealing. This is the soundtrack for
apocryphal dreams and late night car rides.

Clouds of fuzzed guitar
vapor forms into shapes & spaces. Spin and circle one another
like
little planets like sonic dust motes blow around the room. Often brings
to mind Roy Montgomery, but Aldrich is not so metaphysical as Roy; he’s
more nervous, noisy, less formulaic, & far too tense to
trance-out
& he’s a bit more crazy maybe... ~ Dream Magazine

Limited to 200 signed and
numbered copies, this release compiles five years of obscure &
hard
to locate material. This is a personal & understated collection
trancey
post-garage guitar works. Stripped down & laced with something
you've
yet to try, this is one of the more interesting excursions into
neo-psychedelia
out there. Think Alastair Galbraith playing amongst the innards of a
cavern
while you climb the mountain trying to find a way inside.

...simply strummed mood pieces,
delicately ornamented with minimalist bass and drum patterns. The group
have been compared to Neu! but here they owe more to the hanging mists
of Popul Vuh during the latter's golden Herzog soundtrack
period...Stripped
of frills and posturing, their music gently breathes in your ear,
urging
you to dream.~
The Wire

The Land of Nod is an awesome
and mighty shoegazing/space-rocking duo. This is probably the most calm
and pretty disc we've released.

Think of this CD as the aural
score for the aurora borealis, each note a shimmer display of color;
the
tones as waves of light...Simply captivating.~
Mass Transfer

Debut album of Jon DeRosa’s
ambient guitar drone project Aarktica. A continuation of the sounds
started
by Ligetti and followed through by Glenn Branca, Robert Fripp, Brian
Eno,
Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Lycia, lovesliescrushing, &
Flying
Saucer Attack. Still one of our best sellers years later.

Lo-fi
acoustic shoegazer?
Vlor's two cassette releases combined together. Lavished
was recorded in a raquetball room & Luxate
was recorded
in Brian's Bedroom. Here's a review of
Luxate:Vlor are a duo consisting
of Remora's Brian John Mitchell on guitar & Russell Halasz on
guitar
& bass. Though they are quite experimental at times, Vlor never
stray
from their keen pop sensibilities on this excellent cassette release.
Though
very lo-fi -- most of the songs here were recorded in one take using a
hand held recorder -- it's not hard to find the passion in these dark,
enchanting instrumentals. Fans of Flying Saucer Attack, especially the
early stuff, would probably dig Luxate.~
Ben Szporluk, Vendetta
Magazine

This American
band/artist as the information is minimal reflect this in the music
which is appropriately minimal & experimental. Waves of
distortion
fed through reverb effects drone through the ether like a passing tank.
These other worldly murmurs are in stark contrast to the sub Stooges
riffs that are processed out of all recognition on some occasions.
Structured tracks with some vocals are the shade to the more chaotic
soundscapes, the pitch darkness. A mixture of a psychedelic feel set
against a more extreme sound manipulation, like Pink Floyd meets
Merzbow.
~ Bizarre Magazine

In all, this disc is so worth
picking up, words cannot describe it. In a world where gothic
compilations
are structured around the same six to eight bands with a similar
derivative
sound, a compilation like this that showcases what innovations can be
done
with this style of music is so much needed. If you like darkwave, go
get
this. It’s worth it.~
Industrial Nation

Aarktica's Bleeding Light
is an intimate epic which takes raw feelings and lets the music flow
naturally
from them. It's a genuinely exciting album, one that matches emotion
with
experimentation in powerful ways.~
Erasing Clouds

Supported by an ensemble
of horns, strings and percussion,
Bleeding Light is it’s own distinct
hybrid of dark, dissonant free jazz, electro-acoustic drone pop, and
shoegaze
glimmer, all largely centered around North Indian raga structures.

Aarktica
- ...or you could just go through your whole life and be happy anyway
(Bliss
Out v. 18)CD
Album 2002 | Darla 1217
tracks, 41 minutes$12

The
release of this caused a
bit of a ruckus as Aarktica left the soundscape territory &
performed
a few "songs." Another great release from one of our favorite
bands.

Jamie Barnes' music is incredibly
delicate, with a tenderness and ripe vulnerability that tears at your
heart.
His world is one of cautious hope and unbending faith, a landscape of
barely
hidden dangers tempered by the promise of better days. There's also an
undeniable sadness balanced by a spiritual strength more suggested than
splashed across a billboard -- it's inherent, built to last but never
taken
for granted.~
Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The
Courier-Journal

On his third album Jamie
continues to crank out his own special brand of heartbreaking americana.

burMonter - fellCD
Album 1996 | Eilythyia
0028
tracks, 27 minutes$8

burMonter
was a top of the line
bliss-pop band from North Carolina who’s name you’d probably know if
they’d
been based in Boston or New York, but that’s how things work
out.
Think along the lines of Lush, Cure, Curve, & Cranes &
you’re on
the right track. Members of this band went on to form The Pulling
Kiss,
Goddakk,
Plumerai,
& Remora.

The debut effort by San Francisco's
Carta, led by guitarist Kyle Monday (writer or co-writer of all the
songs,
and the only original bandmember left at the time of its release),
finds
the group well established in working in the realm of contemplative
atmospherics.
This isn't to say The Glass Bottom Boat is diaphanous new age or the
like;
rather, like many fine bands before it -- Joy Division, Low, Mogwai
among
others -- Carta seeks to use rock band instrumentation to emphasize
reflective
mood rather than simply traditional performance.~
Ned Raggett, All Music
Guide

This is the album where Carta
first attracted our attention.

Dead Leaves Rising -
Waking Up on the Wrong Side of No OneCD
Album 2001 | Plow City
003$12

Two words are all I really
need here: starkly gorgeous. DeRosa plays folk-influenced indie pop
that
owes as much to Leonard Cohen as Red House Painters but more aptly
resembles
the latter. DeRosa plays all the instruments on this release - except
for
cello on two songs - & what you get is quiet, contemplative
folksy
music that is stark in its crisp, pure acoustic guitar & soft
drumming
and gorgeous in DeRosa’s rich, emotive vocals.~
Delusions of Adequacy

Jon (Aarktica) DeRosa’s final
appearance as DLR before re-working his folk stylings into the
americana
of
Pale Horse and Rider. This is long
out-of-print & destined
to be a collector’s item.

Comprised of eerie, haunting
minimalism, this is one of the most original, non-conforming releases
of
the year.~
Kenyon Hopkins, Advanced
Copy

The third release from long
time Remora touring partner & Silber compilation contributor
Electric
Bird Noise. Intriguing cinematic instrumental guitar music that's sure
to please the post rocker as well as the space junky from No More Stars
Records.

This
is an improvisational drone
recording similar in sound to a lot of Glenn Branca's work.
It was
a radio broadcast to promote the Elegy drone festival in honor of
Michael
Lenz (& a portion of the proceeds go to a scholarship fund in
his honor).
The performers are Jessica Bailiff, Ryley Fogg, Jesse Beacom, Michael
Anderson
(Drekka, Turn Pale), Marc Gartman, Brian John Mitchell (Remora, Small
Life
Form), & Alan Sparhawk (Low).

The album is a moody conglomerate
of emotions embodied by lurid drones and pensive stillness, swirls of
sonic
texture and eerie atmospherics, and entrancing, disorienting repetition
interrupted by robust, vibrant crescendos.~
Jacob Price, Delusions
of Adequacy

Minimalist drone, aggressive
ambient, electro-acoustic, organic, whatever you call it to describe it
doesn’t change this from being a great record. These are all
instrumentals
& all great. I want to listen to this album while driving
through Nebraska.
Very soothing, built from guitars & synthesizers with very
little percussion.
Anyone who likes pieces better than songs should buy this.~
QRD

The debut album by If Thousands
that inspired us to put out Lullaby. Why not start
where their sonic
blanket began?

Remora’s Some Future’s Past
contains a mixture of atmospheric post-rock and minimal, lo-fi, sombre
pop, usually with repetitive song structures. ~
Aquamarine

An EP of outtakes & alternate
mixes form Remora’s
Some Past’s Future album from the
Italian
label
Best Kept Secret. A lot of these pieces are more minimal than those on
Some Past’s Future. Includes versions of “rail” & “warrenton”
with
guest musicians Nathan Amundson &
J Seckel of Rivulets
& finally the release of the hit single “drinking about you.”

He sings sometimes in a Townes
Van Zandt-style troubadour’s voice (“I Called Your Mom”), sometimes the
same way he sings Remora’s usual song-drones, sometimes demonic
(“Heartworms”),
and sometimes in a wicked-fast, odd way (the shortest songs,
generally).
All in all, this album comes off like a joke/experiment, but it’s also
hard to shake, resembling as it does the ghosts of voices past, strung
together as one. Think of exorcisms, of spirits singing through people,
but also those goofy little ditties we all sing to our loved ones, in
the
moment.~
Dave Heaton, erasing clouds

Well, here is a release
you thought would never exist. For those of you who have not seen
Remora
live in the past two years (or gotten personal phone messages), this
side
of Remora is completely unknown. On this release Remora goes
a cappella
in the songs from the live show done while tuning guitar.
Sometimes
comedic, sometimes spiritual, & occasionally
poignant. This was
predominantly recorded by Jessica Bailiff during Remora’s 2006 spring
tour
& includes covers of “We Will Fall” (The Stooges), “Heartworms”
(Coil),
“Sores” (Rollerball), & a passage from Job. Beautiful
hand letter-pressed
artwork by Shane Sauers & a video for “Sores” also by Mister
Sauers.
If Devo 2.0 was the weirdest thing in your collection, this is for you!

An
unreal documentation of the
range & ability of Rollerball & Ovo captured live on
tour in the
United States & Italy. Both bands reveal their artistry
& improvisational
skill on Torture Music Records / Bar La Meurte release my
first cowboy
showing that there are no boundries in music. Rollerball makes use of
their
recorded styles as well as their great ability play live improv
performances.
Ovo presents a strong case for being the new superstars of Italian
avant
noise. Ovo shatters all concepts of restrained conventional music.
Stephania’s
vocal talent is one to recognized, emotionally scorned lyrics make your
spine shiver. Bruno Dorella keeps the madness moving with a mastery of
guitar, drum, & sample work. Great for fans of modern dark
jazz-noise.

Syncretism is where it's
at, and Bathing Music is deliciously dialectic. Any band which manages
to recall Tom Waits, the Sea and Cake, Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill,
Henryk Gorecki, Elliot Sharp, Red House Painters, Camper van Beethoven,
Naked City, Medicine, Bauhaus, Ornette Coleman, Rachel's, Miranda Sex
Garden,
and the UCLA Bruin Marching Band over the span of 42 minutes is worthy
of note. And bands that can take a mix like that and make it seem
inevitable
is formidable, indeed.~
Zach Hooker, Pitchfork

Rollerball's critically acclaim
bathing
music has been out of print for quite a while, but
we recently
acquired a few to sell.

I haven't yet decided if
Rollerball's Einäugige Kirsche ("one-eyed cherry") is sexy in any
conventional sense of the term. It's noisy as hell, I know that:
junkheap
jazz marked by skronking horns and clattering percussion. Whoever you
could
get onto the kitchen floor with this dark beauty has mental problems.
But
don't let it stop you from trying.~
Brent Sirota, Pitchfork

This is the first Rollerball
CD I remember hearing, the covers were hand-silk-screened by the band.

All music that transcends
time & culture while at the same time treading over new sonic
territories
is well worth a listen in my book, & it’s hard to think of
anyone doing
just that more than Rollerball.~
Mats Gustafson, The Broken
Face

One
cannot tell if they resemble
the pop band that got turned onto drugs midway through the sessions, or
the avant-noise band that got turned on to hooks. Either way, Yeti is a
willfully stubborn album, at times catchy; at times utterly
trance-inducing,
occasionally indulgent, but mostly enveloping. Perfectly, maddeningly
scattershot.::
Brent Sirota, Pitchfork

Rollerball's critically acclaim
Trail
of the Butter Yeti has been out of print for quite
a while, but
we recently acquired a few to sell.

The music in itself it is
rather simple in its making, an acoustic guitar and the female voice
with
rather minimal keyboard accompaniments that adds a dreamlike
atmosphere,
surreal and mysterious while the power of the music captivates the
listener
not by force but by some sort of strange seduction and gentle
invitation.
The work centres the compositions in the delicate flow of the voice,
which
is utterly feminine in sonority, like the kind of singing a fairy could
do while in loneliness and melancholy.~
Heathen Harvest

Sarah June’s
debut album from our friends at Hand/Eye that originally brought her to
our attention.

be
careful what you don't
wish for sees the project taken a step further and
features 15
tracks of neo krautrock and post rock comedown. This album see's Chris
getting in touch with his German roots and has everything from
beautiful
melodic Eno-esque cello and piano instrumentals, through to Georgio
Moroder's
electronic repetition, krautrock inspired by 70's German bands Harmonia
and Cluster, whilst also featuring some of the songwriting
Chris
Olley was known for in Six by Seven.

Clairecords
& toneVENDOR
present the second volume in their quarterly compilation series titled
“test tones”. The idea behind the series is to showcase some of the
best
bands, labels and releases offered by toneVENDOR mailorder and
distribution.
Jamming 24 tracks by 24 artists in just a hair short of 80 minutes,
Test
Tones Volume 2.1 is packed to the gills with great tunes at a bargain
price!
Tracks from Midsummer,
Le Pepes, The Birthday Machine,
Remora,
Sexconsciousyoungmoderns,
Morella’s
Forest,
Your Favorite Horse, Pony
Express,
Trace,
Shakespace,
Ksine,
Silver
Screen, For Against,
Mean Red Spiders,
Ai Phoenix,
The
Flir,
Cat and Dog Dialogue, Lab
Partners,
Silent Kids,
The
Caribbean,
The Rules,
Whirlaway,
Valet, &
Dreamend.

Various Artists - A cage
went in search of a birdCD
Compilation 2001 | Somnimage
00417
tracks, 73 minutes$10

It
seems like Franz Kafka has
been getting pretty vogue the past few years & now from
Somnimage we
have a compilation of pieces inspired by him. The edge is a little more
goth than experimental & the featured bands are: Attrition,
La
Funcion De Repulsa, Angelhood, Mara’s
Torment,
Loren
Jan Wilson II & Ryoji Furui, Neither/Neither
World,
Halo
Skycrash, Julian Tulips Licorice, Benjamin
Stauffer,
Chagas,
Shinjuku
Thief, Chthonic Force,
Garden of Dreams,
Remora,
Oblivia,
E.A.
Zann, &The New York Room.